Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

10.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

29.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

31.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

33.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Let your best be for your friend...